Editor of Women’s Own magazine who went on to become a senior national newspaper executive at Today and the Times

The journalist Jane Reed, who has died aged 84, exerted as great an influence over the lives of women in the UK during the emergence of the feminist movement in the last 30 years of the 20th century as many others with a higher profile.

She was a brilliant editor of Woman’s Own for a decade from 1970, turning it into what was claimed to be the most authoritative magazine for women in the English-speaking world, and ended her formal career as one of the executives who called the shots at Times Newspapers.